La Crosse police receive $25,000 WisDOT grant

Money to be used for OWI enforcement

The La Crosse Police Department received a $25,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) for additional patrols to focus on alcohol impaired driving.

Over the next 12 months, La Crosse police will assign officers to 4-hour shifts between the hours of 6 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. to help reduce alcohol impaired driving and improve traffic safety in the city. Those deployments will happen about 4-5 times each month.

La Crosse police will also be participating with other agencies across Wisconsin in High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) saturation patrols during the following time periods: